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title: Mr. Fitzwarren now showed himself to be a good man; for when some of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Fitzwarren now showed himself to be a good man; for when some of his servants said so great a treasure was too much for him, he answered: “God forbid I should deprive him of the value of a single penny, it is his own, and he shall have it to a farthing.” Who acts: Mr., some, treasure, King. A se
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 86

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Mr. Fitzwarren now showed himself to be a good man; for when some of his servants said so great a treasure was too much for him, he answered: “God forbid I should deprive him of the value of a single penny, it is his own, and he shall have it to a farthing.”

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**Who acts:** Mr., some, treasure, King, God · **What happens:** show, be, say, answer, forbid, deprive · **To what, where:** King, good man, treasure, single penny · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., some, treasure, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:37:86
# text = Mr. Fitzwarren now showed himself to be a good man; for when some of his servants said so great a treasure was too much for him, he answered: “God forbid I should deprive him of the value of a single penny, it is his own, and he shall have it to a farthing.”
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	punct	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	deprive	deprive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	farthing	farthing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	55	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | Mr. |  | King |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a good man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | some |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | a treasure |  |  |  |  | for King; much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **forbid** *in a quote* | infinitive | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 7 | **deprive** *in a quote* | should | King | King |  |  |  | of the value of a single penny | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Source of value=Theme |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | treasure |  |  |  |  | own *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | King | treasure |  |  |  | to a farthing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 10 | **value** *in a quote* |  |  | a single penny |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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